http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051027/...f_woman_hanged
FREDERICA, Del. - The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.
The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said.
The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles.
State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later.
"They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.
"It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.
another forum poster [reliable] :
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This happened down by Frederica here in my state.
Frederica is a crazy little town.
It is a hotbed of controversy.
The mayor is in a world of trouble with this other guy and his wife is accused of trying to mow the guy down with her van.
The mayor's brother once made "Hard Copy" back when he was mayor for stealing newspapers each morning in front of the Wawa.
It was the mayors wife who finally called the police and said the body was maybe not a Halloween decoration.
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